Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
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State-aligned actors using AI agents to pivot from a single IT vendor into thousands of downstream customers turns your MSP stack into a systemic risk surface. Treat any shared management platform as a potential single point of failure and push for proof of AI-aware detection and response, not just traditional SOC tooling.
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